This is really great, thanks for posting.
2010-10-11 20:02:17
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Building a sustainable city
An excellent program about doing it right, it just happens to include bikes.
2010-10-11 18:58:31
Let's send the boy mayor to bogota instead of shanghi. Wow!
2010-10-11 20:16:33
lets just send him somewhere that isnt here.
2010-10-11 21:14:10
The link above is now broken, but I found the video here:
Bogotá: Building a Sustainable City
25 minute video, 2007
http://video.pbs.org/video/1144748717/
Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia said “When we have a protected bicycle way this is important because it protects cyclists … but it is also very important because it’s a symbol that shows that a citizen on a 30 dollar bicycle is equally as important to one on a 30,000 dollar car. It’s a very important symbol for democracy.”
2015-10-22 13:20:22
… but it is also very important because it’s a symbol that shows that a citizen on a 30 dollar bicycle is equally as important to one on a 30,000 dollar car. It’s a very important symbol for democracy.”
That is profound.
In this country, the guy w/o the expensive car is largely considered to be worthless.
2015-10-25 18:20:25
I have been asked "You don't have a car? What's wrong with you?" more times than I can count on my fingers and toes. Occasionally earnestly and sympathetically.
2015-10-28 11:32:43